Abdullahi Adamu on Friday led members of the APC National Working Committee to the campaign office of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the party’s presidential flagbearer at the Central Business District in Abuja.
The meeting which was lasted for several hours was held behind closed doors with Senator Kashim Shettima in attendance, and was convened in the face of rising challenges for the party over the 2023 elections.
Other members of the APC NWC are; National Vice Chairman for South-West, Isaac Kekemeke; National Youth Leader, Dayo Israel; Deputy National Chairman for North, Senator Abubakar Kyari, and other notable NWC members in attendance.
This is coming two months after the delegation paid a congratulatory visit to the former governor of Lagos State barely 48 hours after he emerged winner of the APC presidential primary on June 7.
Although details of this meeting is not in public domain as of the time of filing this report, We gathered from an in-house source in the APC camp that it might not be unconnected to the prospect of wooing Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, and the need to resolve internal division among former co-aspirants and aggrieved party chieftains over the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
Clariform recalls that Tinubu, who had been fraternizing Wike via proxies over his 2023 presidential ambition, met the Rivers State governor in London on Monday.
We also recall that two days after Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu met with Gov. Nyesom Wike, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, also met with Wike in London in what has been seen as a move to neutralise Tinubu’s plan to lure Wike to his camp.
Earlier on same day, former President Olusegun Obasanjo also held a closed-door meeting with the Rivers state governor which many pundits believe it is a move aimed at building broad support for the aspiration of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
The meeting of the APC NWC was necessitated to address issues bothering around the risk of losing Babachir, Dogara and Amosun as a result of the Muslim-Mmuslim ticket.
Clariform recalls that APC had been previously pressured to sanction former Governor Ibikunle Amosun and the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola for alleged anti-party activities while Ogbeni Rauf Aregbeaola had been accused of betraying the party to connive with the opposition in a move that saw the ruling party lose Osun to the PDP. On the otherhand, Ibikunle Amosun had said that a ‘disaster’ is waiting to happen in Ogun State.
